A project to consider the next-generation U.S. strategic bomber is set to receive $45 million in the 2004 defense appropriations bill passed by the House and the Senate yesterday, Aerospace Daily reported (see related GSN article, today).

The House of Representatives initially proposed $100 million for the new bomber effort and the House-Senate conference committee later agreed on $45 million in its report publicly released yesterday.  In that report, lawmakers suggest that the technologies developed for the new bomber “can also be demonstrated and incorporated in the existing bomber fleet” (see GSN, Aug. 22).

The conference report also provided an $80 million boost to the Missile Defense Agency’s $65 million request for the Israeli Arrow missile defense system (Marc Selinger, Aerospace Daily, Sept. 25).

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